Financial Services >> Sector Roundtables >> January 21, 2002
NANCY A. BUSH is a Managing Director at Ryan, Beck & Co., LLC. Prior to
joining Ryan, Beck & Co. Ms. Bush was briefly associated with Prudential
Securities, Inc., where she was a Senior Vice President and Major Bank
Analyst. She was previously with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. and Dean
Witter. She started her career at Sentinel Advisors in Montpelier,
Vermont, where she advised portfolio managers on the selection of bank,
S&L and utility stocks and managed the common stock portion of the
Sentinel Balanced Fund. She is well-known for her First Call product and
is regularly quoted in the press. Ms. Bush earned a BS from Shorter
College, Rome, Georgia and was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Naval
Reserve. A Chartered Financial Analyst, she is a member of the Bank and
Financial Analysts Association and is on the Board of Directors. Profile
Gerard S. Cassidy is a Managing Director of Equity Research with RBC
Capital Markets. He was a Managing Director of Equity Research with
Tucker Anthony Sutro Capital Markets, which was acquired by the Royal
Bank of Canada in 2001. He joined Tucker Anthony Sutro in March 1988 as
a Bank Equity Analyst. He is responsible for providing bank and regional
economic research to the firm's clients. Prior to joining Tucker Anthony
Sutro, he was employed by UNUM Corporation as a Senior Bank Analyst. He
began his professional career with Gulf+Western Industries as a Merger
and Acquisitions Analyst. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from
the University of Maine in Accounting and Finance in 1980. He received
his Master's of Business Administration degree from St. John's
University in 1984. He is a former Director and Secretary of the New
York Bank and Financial Analysts Association. He is currently the
President of the BancAnalysts Association of Boston, Inc. He was also on
the Board of Directors of Tucker Anthony Sutro Capital Markets. Profile
Chris Marinac is Co-Founder of FIG Partners. Mr. Marinac co-founded FIG Partners in 2003 and has more than 24 years of financial services and research analysis experience. He leads the firm’s award-winning equity research team that covers more than 150 banks, thrifts and REITs. Mr. Marinac is a nationally respected financial analyst who is frequently quoted in the media. He also authors Insights, one of the industry’s leading financial blogs. Before joining FIG, Mr. Marinac worked for six years as Managing Director at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and spent five years as Research Analyst at Wachovia Corporation — formerly Interstate/Johnson Lane Inc. Mr. Marinac received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from Kent State University. Mr. Marinac is a member of the board and Past President of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Atlanta. Profile
investing in the banking sector and what you include under the Eastern
banks banner?
Ms. Bush: Under the Eastern banks
